Bad idea in this climate. Reaching for the card will result in getting shot, tasered or clubbed because you were "reaching for something". If you say you do not consent you will simply be beaten down as they scream "Stop resisting!". A cop can do anything he wants to you and unless you can afford a high-powered lawyer, there will be no consequences for him. That's reality. Rights are something the govt has.

A cop can do anything he wants to you and unless you can afford a high-powered lawyer, there will be no consequences for him. That's reality. Rights are something the govt has.

That is true, ultimately, but it doesn't always go down like that.

I recently worked with two Mexican brothers, the younger one had no accent but was still noticeably brown. He was in college and was involved in the bro culture, so lots of partying. He told us about his car getting pulled over while he was driving his crew around, I forget exactly what was in the car but someone was holding something, if not everyone. The cop told him the car and everyone in it was getting searched. My friend told him to get a warrant. "Boy, I can get on the phone with the judge and get a warrant right now." "Good," he said, "do it."

The cop let them go. This was a Georgia cop versus a young chicano kid. If he could be successful, I imagine anyone has a shot; of course as you say, some cops will fuck you over regardless, but in that event it's gonna happen anyway, so you may as well try. The key, I think, was that the kid was steadfast–he knew he was right–and as respectful as possible.

What people really need is an app that only shows the most innocuous apps, contacts, texts, etc. The police will think they're searching your phone, but in fact they're only getting a curated version intended for folks with no need-to-know.

And people need this because this court ruling will have zero effect at street level, and is only a defense against prosecution at the court level.

Did a little lookin'...found this image used in a November, 2012 article by Violet Blue on ZDNet's security blog. That article linked to the EFF gift shop, where the "bust card" is available as a $5 3-pack of stickers. So, apparently not a new thing, nor a card-thing, and perhaps not a thing we're free to print and distribute at-will.

I imagine he's got like fifty open tabs at all times and when he was copy-pasting for the link he just selected the wrong tab or something like that. I thought maybe the article he linked had a link to it, but if it's there, I'm not seeing it; even so, why not just link the source?

It's p'bly more like, "yet another site that copies BB posts," than "[s]omeone linked to the same place." Notice that the hihid.co post has the same text as Cory's post, including link destinations (and the photo attribution tag...for a photo that's not even used in the post ; -)

“This sends a clear signal to the authorities that if you spend decades systematically eroding our civil liberties, eventually the Supreme Court will step in and defend them in a very limited and largely symbolic way.”– Clint Bernard– Campground Maintenance Worker